Sparkly baby shoes hang from CSI tape - a reminder that the babies never had the opportunity to wear the shoes instead this very site of incarceration became their tomb of concrete slab and indifference.
This sculpture by Martine Sterck from Belgium comprises of 796 babies made by 796 Flemish mothers. Click here to read more.
This sculpture by Martine Sterck from Belgium comprises of 796 babies made by 796 Flemish mothers. Click here to read more.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
Mary Frances Thérèse Raftery (21 December 1957 – 10 January 2012) was an Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer.
Catherine and Aidan Corless with Carmel Larkin, Peter Mulryan, Michael Flaherty, Walter Francis, Tom Warde, PJ Haverty at Catherine's recent award ceremony in Dublin.
ProfessorJames Smith Boston College
Philip Boucher Hayes- Broacaster and Journalist
Liam Hogan - Historian - Photo Adrian Butler
Donal O'Keefe- Journalist
Sarah Hampson- Journalist with the Globe and Mail
Alison O'Reilly- Journalist
Conall Ó Fatharta - Investigative journalist with the Irish Examiner- photographer unknown
Dan Barry- Journalist for the New York Times- Photographer unknown
Goods from the mother and baby home were auctioned off in the early 1970s.via Caroline Gormley for the New York Times
Thomas Creed SC and Paul McGarry SC award Catherine Corless The Bar of Ireland Human Rights Award
Candlelight Vigil Tuam Nov.2nd 2016 photo Ray Ryan
Tom Warde, Walter Francis and PJ Haverty consult with Minister Zappone at the burial site- Photo Ray Ryan
Four of these mothers are still missing. Could they be buried at the site in Tuam? Anecdotal evidence suggests they are laid there.
Alice McDowell - Director and producer of Ishka films 'Mother and Baby' http://ishkafilms.com
A remembrance ceremony for the mother and babies of Tuam in Salthill, Galway
Eunan Duffy of, Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice Northern Ireland with Teresa Bell and Oonagh Mcleer. Photo Deborah McAleese/PA Wire
Lantern memorial March 7th 2017- Tuam - Photo Ray Ryan
Tom Warde - Photo Ray Ryan
Engineers using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a mass grave of children at the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Photograph from 2014: Aidan Crawley/EPA
The graveyard committee (as was in 2013) who tenderly minded the burial site for the past forty years. Johnny Ryan Photography.
Catriona Crowe - Archivist and Activist
Coleen Nolan (The Nolans) has spoken about her fears that her long-lost sister may have been one of the Tuam babies. https://evoke.ie
Tuam Union Workhouse (Suggested Burial locations by John Tierney)
Solicitor Kevin Higgins and Peter Mulryan
Mary Moriarty discovered a chamber at the burial site in Tuam in 1975
Plaque erected by Mother Hortense McNamara at the chapel site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home.
Proclaimation stating to 'cherish all the children of the nation equally'
Professor Sue Black (mass graves expert) - Photo Tom Horan
Magdalene Survivors
the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home Tuam
Seen here standing on the site of the burials Frannie and his friend Barry Sweeney uncovered the grave in 1975.
Catherine Tully, pictured with daughters Christina and Teresa, did not leave the Tuam home
Photo Andy Newman
We appreciate your support! Some of those who attended a vigil in memory of babies who died at mother and baby homes across the State. Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Our disappeared
JP Rodgers with his mother after they were reunited
Two of Bridget Dolan’s sons were placed in a Mother and Baby Home and both are recorded as having died there. Pic: File
Protestors attach baby clothes, shoes and teddy bears to the railings of Leinster House. Pic: Fran Veale
Julia Carter Devaney - Pic file
Outside Leinster House
We appreciate the dedicated research of Izzy Kamikaze
Clodagh and Majella- Friends from the Tipperary group
Peter Mulryan is a former resident of the Tuam Mother and Baby home. Photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Peter Mulryan with a photo of his mother who was first incarcerated in Tuam and then the Magdalene laundry Galway.
Playground - Tuam Babies burial site
Paper dolls for the mother and baby home in Tuam - Eyre Square during a public vigil in June 2014- Photo Andrew Downes
Una and Peter Mulryan
For the love of my mother - book by JP Rodgers
JP Rodgers photo by Andrew Downes
Ministers Simon Coveney and Katherine Zappone with Aidan and Catherine Corless Photo by Andrew Downes
Anna Corrigan Photo by Andrew Downes
Annette MacKay Photo by Andrew Downes
Pat Duffy Photo By Andrew Downes
By Kilkenny artist Margaret Doyle Hobbs
Tuam 'Home' children
The former Magdalene Laundry Forster St. Galway
The former Magdalene Laundry Galway where many of the mothers from the Mother and Baby Home were sent after their confinement in Tuam.
The Grove Hospital site Tuam is presently being scanned to see whether it contains an unmarked children’s grave.
An example of a typical letter written by the clergy
Former St.Mary's Residents
Support from other groups
Memorial at Glasnevin Cemetary
A group of Duplessis Orphans exchanged stories by video conference with the survivors of Irish Mother and Baby Homes. It was the first time the two groups have met. (Jaela Bernstien/CBC)
Excavation - Photo by Andy Newman
Photo Andy Newman
Digger being put into place at the Tuam Mother and baby Home site - Photo by Andy Newman
For Tuam Spirit Babies Exhibition November 2nd - 16th 2016
Author JP Rodgers and former Mother and Baby Home resident
Candlelight Vigil November 2nd 2016
Model of St.Marys Mother and Baby Home made by Catherine Corless photo by Andrew Downes
The grotto at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site where clearly visible in the wall are the images of a mother and child
Catherine Corless - Candlelight vigil- Tuam - November 2nd 2016 Photo Ray Ryan Tuam Herald
Candle light vigil - Tuam November 2nd 2016 - Photo Ray Ryan for the Tuam Herald
Candlelight Vigil-Tuam Home Babies Burial Ground - November 2nd 2016 Photo Ray Ryan for the Tuam Herald
Hoarding removed from the excavated site - photo Andy Newman
Septic tanks - former Tuam Mother and Baby Home site
Aerial photograph and map of the former Tuam Home courtesy of Adrienne Corless
Geophysical survey at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home Site- Photo Andy Newman
Tuam Survivors and campaigners with Minister Katherine Zappone at the Corrylea Hotel in Tuam
The Tuam Mother and Baby Site during recent excavations 2017 Photo courtesy of Andrew Downes for the Globe and Mail
Home Babies burial ground Tuam
Hoarding at the Home Babies burial site Tuam.
796 -The amount of 'disappeared' babies and children from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Candlelight Vigil Tuam at the Home Babies Burial ground November 2nd 2016
St Mary's (Bon Secours) Mother and Baby Home in Tuam
Map of St.Mary's Mother and Baby Home and former Workhouse in Tuam.
Peter Mulryan, singer Ciara Sidine and Michael O'Flaherty at the Sugar Club in Dublin -Photo courtesy of Lucy Foster
Photo by Andy Newman
Sparkly baby shoes hang from CSI tape - a reminder that the babies never had the opportunity to wear the shoes instead this very site of incarceration became their tomb of concrete slab and indifference.
This sculpture by Martine Sterck from Belgium comprises of 796 babies made by 796 Flemish mothers. Click here to read more.
This sculpture by Martine Sterck from Belgium comprises of 796 babies made by 796 Flemish mothers. Click here to read more.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
300 women are voluntarily making baby squares for the 'Stitched With Love' Blanket to honour the Tuam Babies and Mothers. The blanket is planned to be brought to Tuam in 4 panels to represent the four provinces and lay it on the burial site in a healing ceremony.
Mary Frances Thérèse Raftery (21 December 1957 – 10 January 2012) was an Irish investigative journalist, filmmaker and writer.
Catherine and Aidan Corless with Carmel Larkin, Peter Mulryan, Michael Flaherty, Walter Francis, Tom Warde, PJ Haverty at Catherine's recent award ceremony in Dublin.
ProfessorJames Smith Boston College
Philip Boucher Hayes- Broacaster and Journalist
Liam Hogan - Historian - Photo Adrian Butler
Donal O'Keefe- Journalist
Sarah Hampson- Journalist with the Globe and Mail
Alison O'Reilly- Journalist
Conall Ó Fatharta - Investigative journalist with the Irish Examiner- photographer unknown
Dan Barry- Journalist for the New York Times- Photographer unknown
Goods from the mother and baby home were auctioned off in the early 1970s.via Caroline Gormley for the New York Times
Thomas Creed SC and Paul McGarry SC award Catherine Corless The Bar of Ireland Human Rights Award
Candlelight Vigil Tuam Nov.2nd 2016 photo Ray Ryan
Tom Warde, Walter Francis and PJ Haverty consult with Minister Zappone at the burial site- Photo Ray Ryan
Four of these mothers are still missing. Could they be buried at the site in Tuam? Anecdotal evidence suggests they are laid there.
Alice McDowell - Director and producer of Ishka films 'Mother and Baby' http://ishkafilms.com
A remembrance ceremony for the mother and babies of Tuam in Salthill, Galway
Eunan Duffy of, Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice Northern Ireland with Teresa Bell and Oonagh Mcleer. Photo Deborah McAleese/PA Wire
Lantern memorial March 7th 2017- Tuam - Photo Ray Ryan
Tom Warde - Photo Ray Ryan
Engineers using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a mass grave of children at the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Photograph from 2014: Aidan Crawley/EPA
The graveyard committee (as was in 2013) who tenderly minded the burial site for the past forty years. Johnny Ryan Photography.
Catriona Crowe - Archivist and Activist
Coleen Nolan (The Nolans) has spoken about her fears that her long-lost sister may have been one of the Tuam babies. https://evoke.ie
Tuam Union Workhouse (Suggested Burial locations by John Tierney)
Solicitor Kevin Higgins and Peter Mulryan
Mary Moriarty discovered a chamber at the burial site in Tuam in 1975
Plaque erected by Mother Hortense McNamara at the chapel site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home.
Proclaimation stating to 'cherish all the children of the nation equally'
Professor Sue Black (mass graves expert) - Photo Tom Horan
Magdalene Survivors
the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home Tuam
Seen here standing on the site of the burials Frannie and his friend Barry Sweeney uncovered the grave in 1975.
Catherine Tully, pictured with daughters Christina and Teresa, did not leave the Tuam home
Photo Andy Newman
We appreciate your support! Some of those who attended a vigil in memory of babies who died at mother and baby homes across the State. Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Our disappeared
JP Rodgers with his mother after they were reunited
Two of Bridget Dolan’s sons were placed in a Mother and Baby Home and both are recorded as having died there. Pic: File
Protestors attach baby clothes, shoes and teddy bears to the railings of Leinster House. Pic: Fran Veale
Julia Carter Devaney - Pic file
Outside Leinster House
We appreciate the dedicated research of Izzy Kamikaze
Clodagh and Majella- Friends from the Tipperary group
Peter Mulryan is a former resident of the Tuam Mother and Baby home. Photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Peter Mulryan with a photo of his mother who was first incarcerated in Tuam and then the Magdalene laundry Galway.
Playground - Tuam Babies burial site
Paper dolls for the mother and baby home in Tuam - Eyre Square during a public vigil in June 2014- Photo Andrew Downes
Una and Peter Mulryan
For the love of my mother - book by JP Rodgers
JP Rodgers photo by Andrew Downes
Ministers Simon Coveney and Katherine Zappone with Aidan and Catherine Corless Photo by Andrew Downes
Anna Corrigan Photo by Andrew Downes
Annette MacKay Photo by Andrew Downes
Pat Duffy Photo By Andrew Downes
By Kilkenny artist Margaret Doyle Hobbs
Tuam 'Home' children
The former Magdalene Laundry Forster St. Galway
The former Magdalene Laundry Galway where many of the mothers from the Mother and Baby Home were sent after their confinement in Tuam.
The Grove Hospital site Tuam is presently being scanned to see whether it contains an unmarked children’s grave.
An example of a typical letter written by the clergy
Former St.Mary's Residents
Support from other groups
Memorial at Glasnevin Cemetary
A group of Duplessis Orphans exchanged stories by video conference with the survivors of Irish Mother and Baby Homes. It was the first time the two groups have met. (Jaela Bernstien/CBC)
Excavation - Photo by Andy Newman
Photo Andy Newman
Digger being put into place at the Tuam Mother and baby Home site - Photo by Andy Newman
For Tuam Spirit Babies Exhibition November 2nd - 16th 2016
Author JP Rodgers and former Mother and Baby Home resident
Candlelight Vigil November 2nd 2016
Model of St.Marys Mother and Baby Home made by Catherine Corless photo by Andrew Downes
The grotto at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home site where clearly visible in the wall are the images of a mother and child
Catherine Corless - Candlelight vigil- Tuam - November 2nd 2016 Photo Ray Ryan Tuam Herald
Candle light vigil - Tuam November 2nd 2016 - Photo Ray Ryan for the Tuam Herald
Candlelight Vigil-Tuam Home Babies Burial Ground - November 2nd 2016 Photo Ray Ryan for the Tuam Herald
Hoarding removed from the excavated site - photo Andy Newman
Septic tanks - former Tuam Mother and Baby Home site
Aerial photograph and map of the former Tuam Home courtesy of Adrienne Corless
Geophysical survey at the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home Site- Photo Andy Newman
Tuam Survivors and campaigners with Minister Katherine Zappone at the Corrylea Hotel in Tuam
The Tuam Mother and Baby Site during recent excavations 2017 Photo courtesy of Andrew Downes for the Globe and Mail
Home Babies burial ground Tuam
Hoarding at the Home Babies burial site Tuam.
796 -The amount of 'disappeared' babies and children from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Candlelight Vigil Tuam at the Home Babies Burial ground November 2nd 2016
St Mary's (Bon Secours) Mother and Baby Home in Tuam
Map of St.Mary's Mother and Baby Home and former Workhouse in Tuam.
Peter Mulryan, singer Ciara Sidine and Michael O'Flaherty at the Sugar Club in Dublin -Photo courtesy of Lucy Foster
